Varendra
The Varendra Brahmins (or Barendra Brahmins) are a caste of Bengali Brahmins that originated in the Varendra region of Eastern Bengal (now mostly in Bangladesh).
The five Kulin Brahmin clans that replaced the Barendra Brahmins and settled in Western Bengal were the Banerjee, Chatterjee, Ganguly, Mukherjee, and Bhattacharya.[1] According to Cunningham, the boundary of Varendra was the Ganges and the Mahananda on the west, the Karatoya on the east, the Padma on the south and the land between Koochbihar and the Terai on the north.[2]
Varendra Brahmins
- Jaya Bhaduri, actress, wife of Amitabh Bachchan
- Jhumpa Lahiri, author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker Prize
- Sisir Kumar Maitra, Bengali philosopher
- Kaberi Gain, author and social activist, Professor of Journalism at University of Edinburgh
- Bappi Lahiri, music director
- Reema Debnath, Bollywood actress
- Anil Kumar Gain, mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Sanjeev Sanyal, Indian economist, named one of the hundred Young Global Leaders for 2010 by the World Economic Forum
- Anya Lahiri, British-Indian supermodel
- Chandan Roy Sanyal, Bollywood actor
See also
References
- ↑ History of Ancient Bengal, Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, 1971
- ↑ Varendra in Banglapedia
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